“Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden administration.”
What PolitiFact found
No taxpayer dollars were included in the $6 billion in a U.S.-Iran hostage negotiation deal. It was entirely money that South Korea paid to Iran for oil.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president) made this claim around 7 October 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 October 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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Related checks
- FactCheck.org: False“Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these [Hamas] attacks.”